What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to ta….

You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come….

So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and….

The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge that whatever you’re d….

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing..

The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the wor….

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one..

A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning..

The moments of beauty, the moments when you feel blessed, are only moments; but memory and imagination, treasuring them, can string them together... ….

Every choice we make is either a growth choice or a fear choice..